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Jacales
Jun 29, 2008 16:30:01 GMT -5
Post by marklemon on Jun 29, 2008 16:30:01 GMT -5
The answer is simple, you have the area of repulse wrong. Where is it documented that Romero was "repulsed" and "bounced off" at the northern end of the northern extension? If you have a source stating this, I'd really like to see it. My understanding is that in all likelihood he assaulted more or less due west, from due east, and had to veer to the north because of the artillery fire from the church battery, and ENDED UP at the northern extension, wrapping around the northern corner and co-mingling with those troops in that sector. When this occurred, some of his troops no doubt scaled the walls, outer dirt-and-palisade notwithstanding, with some of their 6 scaling ladders, and entered either at the eastern end of the north wall, the northern end of the northern extension, or both. Call me crazy, but that makes sense to me.....
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Jacales
Jun 29, 2008 19:48:31 GMT -5
Post by Rich Curilla on Jun 29, 2008 19:48:31 GMT -5
Something I just thought of regarding the phrase "built up of doby houses." Working around Alamo Village for most of my life, I have noticed that Mexican workers refer to the "mud" used to make adobe bricks as adobe too. "We are mixing adobe today." "What kind of adobe is in those bricks?" And the hole in the ground where the caliche was dug to mix into the mud is to this day called "the adobe pit."
Maybe common Bexareno idiom in 1835-36 referred to the mud as adobe, even if it was used as chinking for palisaded jacal construction. Thus Jameson might have called these buildings "doby houses" even if they were totally jacal chinked with adobe mud.
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Jacales
Jun 29, 2008 23:19:20 GMT -5
Post by marklemon on Jun 29, 2008 23:19:20 GMT -5
Rich, That's an interesting point, and is certainly a possibility. As I said before, I wouldn't be at all surprised if that row of houses was a mixed bag of complete, ruined, and partially ruined adobe houses, with perhaps a complete jacal structure here and there. I would suppose that, in order to make the adobe mud adhere to the vertical posts, there would have to be a light thatch, or wattling, woven in between the posts. Mark
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